MBAM604-24T3 (C) Term Three 2024

Data Informed Strategy

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 26 August 2024
End Date: Sunday, 17 November 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 September 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 27 October 2024

Description

Strategy is about making purposeful, explicit choices on how to build a sustainable competitive advantage and sustainable long-term profitability or impact. In this course, we will discuss various ways of thinking about organisational strategies, what tools are available to guide your thinking, and the importance of data and analytics for both the selection and implementation of such strategies. This course will prepare participants to think strategically, to ask the right questions, to identifying what data is needed to answer those questions and how to transform data into meaningful insights in order to support decision-making.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand and apply the core strategic information gathering and analysis frameworks and tools useful in developing strategy and strategic decision making.
2. Analyse the internal and external strategic environment of a firm and articulate well-supported recommendations for action.
3. Identify the core business model features and critical success factors required to successfully implement strategy.
4. Identify and evaluate the appropriate data sources to inform strategic decisions.
5. Use key data analysis techniques in order to interpret data and successfully communicate the output to key organisational stakeholders.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the MBA Director.

Equivalent Courses

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 17:00 - 20:00 Rehua 702
26 Aug - 29 Sep
14 Oct - 17 Nov
Intensive Block Course A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 09:00 - 17:00 Rehua 702
30 Sep - 6 Oct
Intensive Block Course B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Saturday 09:00 - 17:00 Rehua 702
30 Sep - 6 Oct

Course Coordinator

Eldrede Tinashe Kahiya

Lecturer

Gerard Quinn

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $3,258.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Master of Business Administration Programme .

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